Weingut Günther Steinmetz, Wintricher, Riesling, Mosel, 2024

STORY BEHIND THE LABEL 

Based in Brauneberg at the heart of the Mosel Valley, Weingut Günther Steinmetz is a third-generation family estate led by husband-and-wife team Stefan and Sammie Steinmetz. Building on a century of family tradition, they craft raw, terroir-driven wines across 12 hectares of legendary slate slopes - including prized plots in the Brauneberger Juffer, Piesporter Goldtröpfchen, and Dhroner Hofberg. Practicing low-intervention, natural viticulture, they reject all chemical fertilisers, herbicides, and insecticides, focusing instead on strict yield control and hand-harvesting old, ungrafted Riesling vines from precipitous inclines that can only be worked by hand.

In the cellar, Stefan and Sammie adhere to a strict minimal-intervention ethos: 100% wild, spontaneous fermentations with zero additives, fining agents, or animal products. Renowned wine critic Stuart Pigott (JamesSuckling.com) consistently celebrates Steinmetz dry Rieslings for their breathtaking intensity, off-the-scale concentration, and razor-sharp slate precision. These are singular, cellar-worthy Mosel wines defined by pure linearity and electric tension.